external image kt896nb2pw-img0089.jpg Bettina Aptheker




Directions: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual and provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?


Questions to consider as you do your research?
  • How did the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement affect the development of the women's movement in the late 1960s?
  • What were Aptheker's major concerns? goals?
  • What had changed ---historical context!---that helps us understand why women began to throw off the constraints of the 1950s and challenge gender inequality?
  • How would she define equality? How might her goals compare to those of civil rights activists at the time?

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